Effective hospital readmission prediction models using machine-learned features

• Main Authors: Sacha Davis (Author), Jin Zhang (Author), Ilbin Lee (Author), Mostafa Rezaei (Author), Russell Greiner (Author), Finlay A. McAlister (Author), Raj Padwal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background: Hospital readmissions are one of the costliest challenges facing healthcare systems, but conventional models fail to predict readmissions well. Many existing models use exclusively manually-engineered features, which are labor intensive and dataset-specific. Our objective was to...